Beyond Two Souls – First Look – The Experiment with Jamie

Beyond Two Souls – Jamie has a first look and covers the first stage.

Beyond: Two Souls is an interactive drama action-adventure video game for the PlayStation 3, developed by French developer Quantic Dream. It stars actors Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe, and was released in October 2013.

Beyond: Two Souls received mixed reviews upon release from critics. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic rated the game 72.54% and 71/100, respectively. Reviewers praised Ellen Page’s character portrayal of Jodie Holmes, many of the other actors, and the amount of details in the game’s animations and graphics.

IGN criticized the game for making the gaming experience too passive and unrewarding, and its plot too muddy and unfocused. Joystiq criticized its lack of solid character interaction and unbelievable plot, noting its unintended silliness. Destructoid criticized the game’s thin character presentation and frequent narrative dead ends, as well as a lack of meaningful interactivity.

Quantic Dream CEO David Cage first announced Beyond: Two Souls at Sony’s press conference during the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2012. A debut trailer featuring in-game graphics was released during the press conference. Unlike Quantic Dream’s previous game Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls will not be PlayStation Move compatible. Actress Ellen Page noted that the script for the game is around 2000 pages long.

Beyond: Two Souls was the final project of composer Normand Corbeil, who died of pancreatic cancer on 25 January 2013. Composer Lorne Balfe, who composed the soundtrack for Assassin’s Creed III, replaced Corbeil as the game’s composer, after Corbeil’s death. Balfe’s long-time collaborator Hans Zimmer joined him as producer in August 2013.

On 27 April 2013, a new trailer was released, and 35 minutes of the game were screened at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival with both Page and Cage in attendance. This marks the second time a video game has been recognized by the film festival, the first time being 2011’s L.A. Noire.